ms. rubens. you are now recognized for five minutes. >> that afternoon chairman runyan, ranking member titus, members of the subcommittee. my testimony today will focus on the status of the integrated disability evaluation system, or ides, benefits delivered at discharge bdd, and the quick start program. with respect to ides joint efforts of the past six years have resulted in changes and improvements in our disability a violation system. together the departments of credit and integrated process for servicemembers are being medically retired or separated. this joint process was designed to eliminate duplicative time-consuming elements of the separating disability determination process within va and dod. the goals of her integration were to provide a seamless transition of benefits and health care for separating servicemembers through 10 checks. as a result, we have worked to achieve these goals are currently there are proximate 29,000 servicemembers with four combined course to the average proces